<\/span><\/h2>\nThe apple thorn was created around 1870 by crossing a rooster thorn with the Mexican hawthorn Crataegus mexicana<\/em> f. Stipulata<\/em> in the Arboretum Segrez in France. The ideal location for this hawthorn hybrid is on medium to light, dry to fresh soils. The apple thorn tolerates pH values in the neutral to strongly alkaline range.<\/p>\n![\"Hawthorn](\")
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It tolerates heat, drought, and frost well and is completely hardy. As a small tree or large shrub, it can reach heights of 7 m and more. Older apple thorns can be almost twice as wide as they are high. The 5 – 15 cm long, toothed leaves stick to the shrub until December. In May the numerous white to pink flowers bloom in panicles. The bright orange-red speckled, up to 2 cm thick fruits adorn the bush until January and serve as a source of food for the local fauna.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Azarol thorn ( Crataegus azarolus<\/em> )<\/span><\/h2>\nThe azarole thorn is native to West Asia and North Africa and is cultivated all over the Mediterranean for its large, tasty fruits. It is also known as the Welsche Loquat or Azarol apple. In earlier times the azarole thorn was also often found north of the Alps – as a winter hardy wild fruit tree down to -23 \u00b0 C. Nowadays it has almost completely disappeared and is unknown. It prefers a sunny to a partially shaded location on fresh to moist, nutrient-rich, sandy-loamy soil.<\/p>\n
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The small tree or large shrub with a height of about 5 – 8 m has strongly pinnate leaves and flowers from June to July. The round to pear-shaped red to light yellow fruits are 2 – 3 cm in size and taste apple-like, sweet and sour, and aromatic. They have a very high vitamin C content and are eaten raw or processed in jams, competes, or baked goods.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Chinese hawthorn \/ pinnate-leaf hawthorn ( Crataegus pinnatifida<\/em> )<\/span><\/h2>\nC. pinnatifida has been<\/em> grown from China to East Asia for around 2000 years. The preferred location is sunny to partially shade on fresh to moist, sandy-loamy soils. The small tree, hardy to -23 \u00b0 C, reaches heights of 4 – 7 m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Its large, dark green leaves are deeply indented and have long stalks. The Chinese hawthorn blooms from May to June and forms up to 3 cm large, round and blood-red colored fruits in autumn. The taste is sour and floury, which is why they are mainly candied or made into jelly, chewy candies, juice, and wine. In folk medicine, the dried fruits of Chinese hawthorn are used to relieve digestive disorders.<\/p>\n
In near-natural gardens, a bird hedge made from native hedge plants is an important contribution to maintaining biodiversity. With us, you can find out which native bushes are suitable for birds and which species are better to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hawthorns come in a wide variety of species and growth forms. We present nine interesting hawthorn species for the home garden. In addition to the native hawthorn species, species from different parts of the world have established themselves in our cities, but also as hedge plants and bird protection trees. We present 9 hawthorn species…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardender.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}